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Agassi Joseph. Science in Flux. Springer,1975. — 559 p.. 1975

Joseph Agassi is a critic, a gadfly, a debunker and deflater; he is also a constructor, a speculator and an imaginative scholaro in the history and philosophy of science, he has been Peck's bad boy, delighting in sharp and pungent criticism, relishing directness and simplicity, and enjoying it all enormously. As one of that small group of Popper's students (including Bartley, Feyerabend and Lakatos) who took Popper seriously enough to criticize him, Agassi remained his own man, holding Popper's work itself to the criteria of critical refutation. Agassi's range is wide and his publications proliik. He has published serious studies in the historiography of science, applied sociology (on Hong Kong with LC. Jarvie), foundations of anthropology, interpretive scientific biography (Faraday), Judaic studies, philosophy of technology (which Agassi pioneered, particulary in distinguishing it from the philosophy of science), as well as the many works on the Iogic, methodology, and history of science. Even as we go to press, Agassi's works are appearing; we append an imperfect and selected bibliography. For Agassi, the test of relevance is whether something is interesting.

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SCIENCE IN FLUX
ON NOVELTY
WHEN SHOULD WE IGNORE EVIDENCE IN FAVOUR OF A HYPOTHESIS?
TESTING AS A BOOTSTRAP OPERATION IN PHYSICS
SECOND introduction: the duhem-quine thesis
TOWARDS A THEORY OF AD HOC HYPOTHESES
THE NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS AND THEIR ROOTS IN METAPHYSICS
QUESTIONS OF SCIENCE AND METAPHYSICS
THE CONFUSION BETWEEN PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS IN THE STANDARD HISTORIES OF SCIENCES
POSITIVE EVIDENCE IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
IMPERFECT KNOWLEDGE
MODIFIED CONVENTIONALISM
The Socratic Method is only an approximation-method, and belongs to the semi-fictions, the only kind that really come into question. (Vaihinger)1
UNITY AND DIVERSITY IN SCIENCE
CAN RELIGION GO BEYOND REASON?
ASSURANCE AND AGNOSTICISM

Books and textbooks on the discipline Philosophy of Science and Technology:

  1. Allen B.. Empiricisms: Experience and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene. Oxford University Press,2021. — 527 p. - 2021 ãîä
  2. Alger Bradley E.. Defense of the Scientific Hypothesis: From Reproducibility Crisis to Big Data. Oxford University Press,2020. — 449 p. - 2020 ãîä
  3. Achinstein P.. Speculation: Within and about Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press,2019. — 297 p. - 2019 ãîä
  4. Aguirre A., Foster B., Merali Z. (Eds.). What is Fundamental? Springer,2019. — 189 p. - 2019 ãîä
  5. Agazzi E. (ed.). Varieties of Scientific Realism: Objectivity and Truth in Science. Springer,2017. — 411 pp. - 2017 ãîä
  6. Alai M., Buzzoni M., Tarozzi G. (eds.). Science Between Truth and Ethical Responsibility: Evandro Agazzi in the Contemporary Scientific and Philosophical Debate. Springer,2015. — 337 pp. - 2015 ãîä
  7. Ackermann R.J.. Data, Instruments, and Theory: A Dialectical Approach to Understanding Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press,2014. — 230 p. - 2014 ãîä
  8. Achinstein P.. Evidence, Explanation, and Realism: Essays in Philosophy of Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press,2010. — 344 p. - 2010 ãîä
  9. Allhoff F.. Philosophies of the Sciences: A Guide. N.-Y.: Wiley-Blackwell,2010. — 386 p. - 2010 ãîä